3. among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4. But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
5. even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6. and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7. that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
8. for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9. not of works, that no one would boast.
10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
11. Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
12. that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.